Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 15135, Dennis Garrison, New York

SERVICE
New York
Garrison, Dennis
NUMBER _____
NUMBER 15-135
barded
CONTENTS

Letter to H. H. ... 10 ... ... First Date ... history ... Error ...
In all to ... 8. 1834 In all to Wm A. Decline ... Feb. 10 1836 John ... Samuel ... May 2 ... " ... " ... " ...
64 ...  New York
Dennis Gairdner
of Westchester in the State of N. York who was a Pri. Lieut in the Company comma- by Captain ... of the Regt. command ... in the ... for 12 months ... 5 ...
Inscribed on the Roll of N. York at the rate of 65 Dollars — per per ann commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 28th day of July 1833 — and due to Wm A. ... No. ...
Arrears to the 4th of Sep. 1832 $47.00 Semi-ann. allowance ending June '38 32.00  $110.00
Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832. Geo. B. Stiles Clerk Vol. 5. Page 135
Recorded by Book D.

Application of Dennis Garrison
Not on rolls of Capt Stephens See Vol 4. page 39-40 -
Adm'd 5 mo. Serch + 12 mo. pri 65 $
In Vol 8. p 16 - #29.16
Ward

Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 17 th 1832
State of New York County of Westchester ss Personally appeared on this fourth day of December in the year 1832 in open court before the Court of Common Pleas held at White Plains in and for the said County of Westchester now sitting Dennis Garrison Resident of the Town of Westchester in the said County and aged Seventy Seven years on the thirteenth day of March last past who being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 17 th 1832
That he entered the Service of the United States and served as herein stated that is to say. That he first entered the said Service in the Militia of the said County in the latter part of November 1776 in a company commanded by Capt. Robert Acker of Col. Hammond Regiment of Militia consisting of about sixty men of the said Regiment was ordered to guard the West Inhabitants who resided on and near what was then called the American lines which was then established from Tarry Town east by the way of Youngs is known to the White Plains. That they were stationed at at the houses of Peter Van Tassel and Cornelius Van Tassel on the New Mill River Road about two Miles South of Youngs is known where their provisions and other stores were kept That the Declarant continued to serve in said company as a private Sol- dier from the said Month of November until the first of May 1777. That the Declarant then enlisted again in Capt. Acker's com- pany in a Regiment of Levies commanded by the said Col. Ham- mond for the term of three Months. That he continued in the said Capt. Acker's company during the commands of Col. Ham- mond and Col. Liddington which in the whole was seven - months on the said lines That after the expiration of the times for which Hammonds Regiment and Liddingtons Regiment had expired the whole of the American Troops having been withdrawn from those lines The said Col. Hammond called out about Sixty Volunteers of his said Regiment as a guard to the Inha- bitants who resided in that part of the said County who

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+ 3 mths old on file See Vol 4 p 39 40
were put under the command of the said Syburt Acker and continued to guard the several roads leading to the British out posts in Morrisania. That he served as a private soldier in said Capt Acker's at that time from some time in the Month of December 1777 until the latter part of the Month of April in the year 1778 when Col' Morris Graham with a Regiment of Levies took the command of that Station. That he then removed from the American lines to Croton River and soon after to Peks Hill in the upper part of the said County. That in the Summer of the year of 1780 while he lived at Peks he enlisted in a company of Levies raised in the said County commanded by Capt. Benjamin Stephens for the term of five Months That their said company was stationed on the American lines in the said County and a great part of that time near Pones  Croton Bridge over the Croton River That he was a Sergeant in said company and about five Weeks of that time commanded the for and over the provisions and other stores of the American Troops then stationed on those lines. That he was a Volunteer guide to the American Troops in the Spring of the year 1780 when a party of Continental Troops and some Militia Men of the said County Stormed Col' DeLancey's quarters in Morrisania took a Capt. Totten and about 40 prisoners - of DeLancey's Refugees and that he continued to Volunteer his services at all times during the remaining part of the Revolutionary War with the American Troops whenever they made an excursion to the enemies quarters in the Southern parts of the said County of Westchester he being born and always lived in the Town said Town of Westchester until the commencement of the Revolutionary War and was particularly acquainted with that part of the said Town which was occupied by the British Refugees from the year 1776 until the Termination of the said War and was in a number of conflicts with the British Refugees during the said war but cannot now recollect the particular dates of these conflicts
And the Deponent further States That he was born in the Town of Westchester in the said County and always lived

on the thirteenth day of March in the year 1755 the record of his birth he herewith produces in court That the Declarant lived when he entered the American Service in that part of the said County now the Town of Greenborough as he has above stated. That he has always lived in the said County of West Chester and still lives in the said Town of West Chester where he was born. That this Declarant always served by volunteer enlistments but never was drafted That this Declarant never received a written discharge from the Service during the revolutionary War nor has he any written document relating to his said Services. That the following are the names of the continental officers that he knew during his said Services in the said War Viz t Col l Phil p Van Cortlandt Col l B r M a j r Hull Col l D r Titcomb Col l S y kes Col l P r Sherman Col l H a mmann Col l L o ddington M a j r Strong and many others with whom he served during the said War, but whose names he cannot now recollect
That the names of the persons to whom he is known and who can testify to his truth and veracity and their belief of his Services as a Soldier of the Revolution are Isaac D. Young and Nicholas H. D. Young Isaac D. L e lamator Senior & Isaac D e lamator Junior
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of the agency of any State
Sworn and Subscribed the 4 th day of December 1882 in Open Court before me
Dennis H. Garrison mark
N o Rayles Clk of said Court We Isaac D e lamator Sen. & Isaac D e lamator Jun r both residing in the Town of West Chester in the County of West Chester do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Dennis Garrison who has Subscribed and Sworn to the above Declaration. That we believe him to be Seventy Seven years of age and that he is reported and believed in the Neighborhood where he resides to have been a Soldier of the Revolution and that we fully believe that he served in that war

at the times and in the manner he has in his Declaration States and that we fully and clearly concur in that opinion and that he is a man of good character & to be believed on oath
Sworn and subscribed this day and year above written in open Court before me
Isaac Delamater Isaac Delamater Jr
N Bayles Clk of said Court
And the said Court doth hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the Matter and after putting the Interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named ap- plicant was a revolutionary sol- dier & served as he states & the Court further certifies that it ap- pears to them that Isaac Delama- ter Senior & Isaac Delamater Junior who have signed the preceding certificate are residents of the Town of Westchester in said County and are credible persons and their statement entitled to Credit
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Isaac Delamater Isaac Delamater Jr
I Nathaniel Bayles Clerk of the Court of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of West- chester State of New York do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Dennis Larison for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office this 4 th day of December 1832
N Bayles Clk of said Court

State of New York Westchester County ss Samuel Young of the Town of White Plains in the said County being Duly Sworn saith that since some time in the fall of the year 1776 he has been well acquainted with Dennis Garrison the Deponent mentioned in the annexed application for a Pension. That he frequently see him while he was a Soldier in Capt Sylvester Cook's Company from the fall of the year 1776 until the latter end of April 1777. That the Deponent served a greater part of the time with the said Company. That he also frequently see the said Dennis during the Summer of 1777 as a Soldier in the said Capt Cook's Company the first part of that Summer the men were entitled for three months that when their time expired the men enlisted again under Capt Cook for the term of four months that the Regt for four months was commanded by a Col Liddington whose headquarters was kept at the House of Joseph Young the Father of the Deponent by which the Deponent had frequent opportunities of seeing and conversing with the Soldiers on that Station and as the said Dennis Garrison had been always broke up the Town of Westchester then on the Ground then occupied by the British Refugees he became very useful as a guide to the American Troops on all occasions when they had to approach the British out posts. That he has known him to be frequently selected on those occasions and the Deponent always understood and still believes that he conducted himself on those occasions to the perfect satisfaction of the Commander whose Command he was. That the Deponent also recollects to have seen the said Dennis Garrison while he was a Sergeant in Capt Stephens's Company and believes the term for which the men were then raised was five or six months
Sworn and Subscribed this 4th day of December 1832 in open Court testimony
Samuel Young
N B Ayres Clerk of said Court

State of New York
Westchester County. 3rd Nicholas Banker of the Town of Greenburgh in the said County aged Seventy four years being duly sworn saith that he became acquainted with Dennis Garrison the Deponent in the assured application sometime in the beginning in the beginning of the Revolutionary War. That he frequently see him embodied with the militia under Captain Sylvester Baker in the winter of the year 1777 but does not know for what time he then served. That he also see the said Dennis Garrison while a private soldier under the said Captain Baker in Col d Hammonds Regiment of three months men that he has a full belief that he served out that time. That he also Remembers to have seen the said Dennis Garrison as one of the Party who attacked and took Lieut t Althorn on the American lines in the latter part of the Month of February 1778 and that he fully believes that the said Dennis Garrison continued in the American Service in the manner stated in his Declaration as a true and faithful Soldier of the Revolution
Subscribed this
4 th day of December 1802
in open Court before me
Nicholas Banker Deponent
N o Bayles Clerk of said Court
I certify that the foregoing & Bro d the above named witness are credible tenth to belief Edward D. Miller

Dennis Garrison
In Vol 8 p 14 - $6.09
16 - 29. 16
35.75
Remd
5.14
P. 267
Feb 23 193
Hon. A. Ward

BRIEF in the case of Dennis Garrison of West Chester in the State of N. York (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? open Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 77 years  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. As a Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days. Gen.     In 1776 & 1777. 5 Private Capt. Sylvester Aiken Col. Hammond N. York Militia   not clearly specified, but appears to have occurred between May 1777 & Apr. 1778 7 do Capt. Aiken Col. Hammond do   Summer of 1780. 5 Sergeant Capt. Benjamin Stephens do    He alleges some further service of an irregular nature, which is not defined by dates
 5. In what battles was he engaged? None named  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? West Chester County N. York  7. Is his service supported by living documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditional evidence, and two living witnesses  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? they are properly authenticated 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
6. 66 29. 16
H. Gordon Examining Clerk.

15135 INVALID.
File No. 15135
Dennis Garrison Sergt. Boer War
Act: June 7 th 1832
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 138
[Arrangement of 1870.]

West Farms Jan'y 2 nd 1835
Sir
As there seems to be a mistake in the enrolled Document of Dennis Garrison and as I believe that there has been a revision in the Law relating to Revolutionary Pensioners I would esteem it a favor if you would correct any flaw therein and the said Dennis Garrison be in any straitened circumstances and depend upon his Pension for a maintenance
Yours
Very respectfully Wm. L. De Lancey
P.S. You will please return the document as quick as possible and direct to Wm. L. De Lancey West Farms West Chester County New York

Sir /
A few days ago Dennis Garrison informed me that his Pension was stopped and show me your letter addressed to Mr A Delancey Esq of West Farms assigning the reasons of its being suspended viz t that the four months service alleged to have been performed by him in Col t Benjamin Stephens Company, that his name could not be found on the pay roll of that company. I cannot account for that omission in any other way than that soon after that company came on the lines - Dennis Garrison was selected to command the guard of the Commissary Stores I was then one of the guides to the Troops then stationed on the American lines in the County of Westchester and frequently see the said Dennis Garrison in that capacity I had been well acquainted with him and know that he had the charge of that guard and consequently was absent from the company altho' on duty. I think it probable that he never after joined the company altho' I have not the smallest doubt of his serving out his time as Sergeant of the Commissary guard. I am also very confident that in the fall and winter of 1776 and 1777 he served on the American lines in the said County of Westchester and also in the fall and winter of 1777 1778 but those services I believe were by the mere recommendation of the Committee of Safety so called in order to guard the War inhabitants residing on or near those lines from the Plundering parties of the British refugees. That the said Dennis Garrison having been born and bred up in the Town of Westchester then occupied by the British Refugees he was better acquainted with every part of that Town than any of the other guides and I know he was very frequently called upon as a guide to the Continental Troops in whenever an execution was in in contin- -uation against the said British refugees and that I have been with him on several of those occasions and know that he always conducted himself as an active and faithful Soldier and was very useful to us Dennis Garrison is now about 86 years of age much debilitated in body and mind. he is very poor and if his Pension is withheld he must go to the Poor house which will soon put an end to his wants and sufferings If any any thing can be done for him I will cheerfully order him all the aid in my power. and can procure the affidavits of several respectable Persons containing in substance what I have above stated. he assured that he was to the end of the Revolutionary War a true and active friend from the first to our Cause -
I am your old Serv t
Sam l Young
White Plains April 10 th 1836
J L Edwards Esq

170 0477

WAR DEPARTMENT.
Revolutionary Claim.
I certify that in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 7th June, 1832, Dennis Garrison of the State of New York who was a Private and Sergeant
is entitled to receive Sixty five dollars cents — cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-annually, on the 4th of March, and 4th of September, in every year.
Given at the War Office of the United States, this 28 th day of February one thousand eight hundred and thirty- three
Lawson
Secretary of War.
Examined and Countersigned. }
J L Edwards

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Garrison, Isaac GRADE Private LINE Pennsylvania
WARRANT NUMBER 9450 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED February 14, 1791 to Alexander Purver, assignee
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.